Cryptocoins News / CryptoNinjas - 3 weeks ago
Key Takeaways:
The Fermi hard fork is now live on BNB Smart Chain, cutting block times by 40% to ~0.45 seconds.
Fast finality rules were strengthened to keep confirmations reliable as throughput increases.
The upgrade targets real-world usage growth...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 3 weeks ago
BNB Chain’s Fermi hard fork goes live on Wednesday, cutting BSC block times from 0.75 seconds to 0.45 seconds and tightening fast-finality rules.BNB Chain’s Fermi upgrade, which goes live Wednesday, will cut BNB Smart Chain (BSC) block times from 0.7...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 month ago
The Fermi hard fork on BNB Smart Chain (BSC) reduces block times significantly, enhancing transaction speed and network reliability, set for activation on January 14, 2026. (Read More)
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 1 month ago
The Fermi hard fork will cut block times to 250ms, enabling faster DeFi and real-time apps.
It will also introduce extended voting and partial indexing, leading to stability and lighter nodes.
The experimental BAL showed ~18.6% execution gains in lo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 month ago
The mainnet rollout follows the Fermi testnet activation in November, further reducing block times on the layer-1 blockchain network....
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 month ago
The hard fork on Monday followed a majority of Gnosis validators adopting a soft fork in response to a November Balancer exploit, in which about $...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 month ago
Polygon’s hard fork cuts consensus time to one second, supports Fusaka EIPs and lays the groundwork for stablecoin and RWA-focused scaling....
by COINS NEWS - 2 months ago
TL;DR: It's ok to hard fork. They reduce technical debt, complexity, and security risks. Even Bitcoin has hard-forked before. What is a Hard Fork? Hard forks are common for blockchains. Most newer and modern blockchains use a mix of soft and hard...
by COINS NEWS - 2 months ago
I think a lot of people have forgotten that there has been at least 1 true double-spend as a result of a hard fork on Bitcoin. This was confirmed by many core devs including Gavin Andresen among others: March 2013 Chain Fork Post-Mortem Background In...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 3 months ago
VeChain introduces the Hayabusa hard fork to enhance network security and growth through Delegated Proof of Stake, reducing VTHO inflation and improving tokenomics. (Read More)
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 3 months ago
A storm is brewing within the Bitcoin (BTC) developer community, threatening to fracture the ecosystem for the first time in nearly a decade. A technical dispute over the use of Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN function has escalated into a full blown ideological...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 3 months ago
La Ethereum Foundation ha confermato che il prossimo hard fork Fusaka introdurrà un limite massimo a livello di protocollo sulla quantità di gas che una singola transazione può consumare, formalizzato come EIP-7825.
Il tetto è fissato a 2²⁴ gas — ovv...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 5 months ago
ADA trades at $0.83 with neutral RSI at 48.96 as traders weigh upcoming Chang hard fork against bearish MACD signals and recent scaling milestone achievements. (Read More)
More / Etherum Reddit - 6 months ago
Ethereum is gearing up for its next major hard fork, Fusaka, tentatively slated for November 2025. As someone who’s been following Ethereum’s development, I’m excited to share a detailed look at what Fusaka brings to the table, based on recent source...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 6 months ago
Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal described the upcoming Heimdall 2.0 upgrade as the “most complex” Polygon hard fork since 2020....
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 9 months ago
Ethereum’s Fusaka hard fork is expected in late 2025, and Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko has ruled out the inclusion of the controversial EVM O...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 9 months ago
Ethereum validators supported raising the network’s gas limit on Feb. 4, increasing the gas limit to 36 million. Ethereum core...